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Skills

Skills are instruction packs that teach Row-Bot how to approach a category of work. Settings › Skills is where you find skills, add them, try them, and create or edit your own (the command palette's Add a skill goes there). Skills you have added can also be discovered and loaded progressively when a task clearly matches their purpose.

See Settings: Skills for the page itself.

UI Walkthrough​

  • Search finds skills in the library on this computer; Search online catalogs asks catalogs such as ClawHub.
  • Your skills lists the skills you have added, built-in and your own.
  • A skill's page shows its slash command (Use it in chat with /name), whether chats use it and which agent profiles include it, and What's inside: its files and scripts.
  • Add adds the skill and turns it on. Scripts inside it never run when it is added.
  • Try it opens a new chat with a draft that uses the skill; nothing is sent until you send it.
  • ⋯ › Turn off stops chats using it, and ⋯ › Remove… deletes a skill you added or created.
  • ⋯ › Advanced settings opens the skill editor, where you edit and pin the skill and review proposed changes.

Creating A Skill​

  1. Choose Create a skill in Settings › Skills.
  2. Decide what task the skill should help with.
  3. Write concise instructions, examples, and boundaries, including when the skill should and should not be used.
  4. Save it.
  5. Test it with Try it or a small prompt.
  6. Revise if Row-Bot overuses or misunderstands it.

What Skills Change​

Skills shape Row-Bot's behavior; they do not automatically grant credentials or bypass approvals. A skill can make Row-Bot more consistent for a task, but tools still need to be enabled and approved where appropriate.

Automatic Selection​

When progressive discovery is available, Row-Bot can search enabled skills and load a relevant one for the current task. A successful automatic load appears once as Using skill and adds an active skill chip.

  • Automatically selected skills are stored per parent task or child Agent, not per shared Agent Profile.
  • Reopening a task restores its selected skills.
  • Parent tasks and sibling children do not share automatic activation state.
  • Up to five automatically selected skills are retained per task; pinned skills remain separate.
  • Loading an already active skill does not show a second Using skill notice.

Automatic selection changes instructions only. It cannot add a denied tool, alter credentials, bypass approvals, expand a workspace, or change an Agent Profile. Read Progressive Tools And Skills for the complete tool and skill flow.

Troubleshooting​

  • If a skill is not used, make your prompt match its purpose, confirm it is in Your skills, or call it with its slash command. The command on its own turns the skill on for the chat; inside a longer message it focuses just that turn on the skill. See Mention an app or a skill.
  • If a skill is too aggressive, rewrite it with clearer boundaries or remove it.
  • If a skill from a catalog is unfamiliar, open What's inside before adding it.